Comments on: Mutual ownership of data – FSN http://silona.org/mutual-ownership-of-data-fsn/2009/06/15/ silona's central identity Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jrep http://silona.org/mutual-ownership-of-data-fsn/2009/06/15/comment-page-1/#comment-18 jrep Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:55:36 +0000 http://silona.org/?p=119#comment-18 There's an interesting irony here: User: "Once I download music from your site, I should be completely free to pass it to any of my friends." Facebook: "Once you upload identity to our site, we should be completely free to pass it to any of our friends." The two statements have completely symmetric forms, yet I think there are many of us who agree with one and deplore the other. Curious. I don't have any solutions here, but a glimmer of a hint comes from your suggestion of "inequality of risk." I think you've only applied it to the "does own / does not own" inequality, but the very different reactions we have to the two statements above say we perceive -- and demand -- significantly greater inequalities here. There’s an interesting irony here:

User: “Once I download music from your site, I should be completely free to pass it to any of my friends.”

Facebook: “Once you upload identity to our site, we should be completely free to pass it to any of our friends.”

The two statements have completely symmetric forms, yet I think there are many of us who agree with one and deplore the other. Curious.

I don’t have any solutions here, but a glimmer of a hint comes from your suggestion of “inequality of risk.” I think you’ve only applied it to the “does own / does not own” inequality, but the very different reactions we have to the two statements above say we perceive — and demand — significantly greater inequalities here.

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